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Upper Body Plyometrics for Throwing Velocity
Strength is an extremely important general quality for athletes of all levels to develop and maintain. Strength raises the athlete’s maximal force producing capabilities which underly everything the athlete does in sport. However, at a certain point, strength training...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 3
Thanks for following along for this three-part series. Rather than cramming all of this information into one 5000-word article I figured it was better to split it up into manageable chunks. This is the last piece of this series and will cover how programming from...
Velo Horseshoes: A Submaximal Method to Improve Throwing Velocity
Athletes who want to be the best often put a ton of pressure on themselves, are extremely invested in their training, know their PRs, especially on relevant KPIs, and this can get in the way of “free and easy” performances where the athletes enter flow state and...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 2
In Part 1 of this article series we discussed a few elements of sprinting that can help us understand high quality movement on a deeper level and allow us to examine high velocity throwing through a different lens. In Part 2 we'll continue that discussion. Proximal to...
What Can Sprinting Teach Us About High Velocity Throwing? Part 1
Sprinting is a foundational movement in which athletes in all sports should be proficient. This doesn’t mean that all athletes should train like 100m sprinters, but if you look like a baby deer when you sprint, it’s likely a symptom of poor general movement...
A Science Based Model For Deloading and Reloading Throwing
With COVID-19 delaying and cancelling many baseball seasons, pitchers are finding themselves in limbo. Do they continue to throw as if the season is happening next week? Do they shut down? Do they treat it like the offseason? A deload can work well in this situation...
Applying Concepts of Shock Training to Pitching: Part 1, The Weight Room
To throw at elite velocities, pitchers must be able to produce a lot of force in a short amount of time. Strength plays an important role in this, but when trying to improve rate of force development and throwing velocity, increasing maximum strength alone is not...
At-Home Training to Maintain Your Gains
Due to the unfortunate pandemic COVID-19, many athletes are struggling to continue training and therefore maintain any progress made during the offseason. With that in mind, I have built a training program that can be performed at home and outside without access to...
The Positions and Rhythm of High Velocity Pitching: Part 2, Rhythm
Rhythm and athletic performance are inseparable, whether most coaches and athletes realize it or not. The ability to produce force underlies everything an athlete does, but without rhythm, force will be misapplied, and the ultimate output will be lower than expected....
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Upper Body Plyometrics for Throwing Velocity
Strength is an extremely important general quality for athletes of all levels to develop and maintain. Strength raises the athlete’s maximal force producing capabilities which underly everything the athlete does in sport. However, at a certain point, strength training...